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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1918.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ' AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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Were They Exposed Unjustly? Perhaps some overly sympathetic persons in Richmond, whose judgments are determined by tender hearts instead of dispassionate intellects, believe that an injustice was done to the two Metzdorffs when they were arrested for uttering opinions that do not square with loyalty to the American government. ' Others may believe that patriots in this community are entirely too severe in their arraignment and condemnation of persons guilty of proGerman sympathies. Let us waive a discussion of the principle involved in the incarceration of the Metzdorffs and in the denunciation of the misguided persons who wish the Kaiser success, and confine ourselves to

a comparison of incidents that have led to arrests here and elsewhere, and then determine if we have been too zealous. A news dispatch a few days ago briefly stated that two editors of a German newspaper published at Kansas City had been arrested under the espionage act, because American citizens born in Germany complained of articles which they believed inimical to our national welfare. The complaint, let us note, was made by German-Americans and not by an investigating body. Three articles were cited as sufficient cause for police action. One was an editorial, another a news item, and the third a copy of a purported letter. The editorial was a broadside against the President's speech to Congress and described it as one that "may be joyfully received in England, France and Italy. But after the average American has read through the labyrinth of high sound

ing sentences he comes to the conclusion that they contain not a word of either cheer or hope to him." The news article said that the Central Powers were carrying on. a "defensive war" and were not "responsible for the continuation of the war." The letter described America's entry into the wai as "the most monstrous treachery to the people of the United States that has ever happened." Here are three lines of attack on our national spirit that are typical of German propaganda in this country. The whole purpose of these screeds was to discourage Americans and to create dissatisfaction with the action of our government in entering the war. These sentiments are not uch extreme views that they loom high above the expressions of others whose hearts beat responsive to the illusive calls of Pan-Germanism. Neither are they

more emphatic in their opposition to America's entrance into the war than many that have been made by some persons who reside in Richmond. Statements of the two Metzdorffs and of other pro-Germans in this community show greater venom and vehemence than the ones which the two Kansas City editors permitted to be printed in the columns of their papers. The espionage act carries a penalty of a fine not to exceed $10,000 and a penitentiary sentence of not more than twenty years, or both fine and imprisonment. This is the bright prospect that faces the two editors for publishing articles that tend to disturb the placidity of our national life and cast reflections on the integrity of our chief executive. Now, we ask, is there a patriot in Richmond, who, in view of the provocation that brought about the arrest of the two Kansas City editors, still believes that an injustice has been done to the Metzdorffs by clapping them into prison, or that the community has been too harsh in condemning the utterances, stated or implied, public

ly made or privately expressed, of pro-Germans in this community? Have not Americans without a drop of German in their veins, and hyphenated Americans of our own city been guilty of utterance that exceed in 'disloyal intent the statements which resulted in the arrest of the two editors? Should we hesitate to bring them up with a short turn? Must not our community to maintain an unsullied reputation for loyalty ostracize citizens who are not heart and soul in sympathy with our national aims, and send to prison those who openly denounce or deride our military preparations ? The patriot has only one answer.

sentiment of their hearts will be overlooked and they will be counted among the patriotic citizens of the realm. " Very clever, indeed! Bat who will accept a mental reservation of this kind in the present crisis? - Mark down this observation and remember it well. ' This community must be the abode of citizens who are loyal in thought, word and deed. Those whose utterances are unpatriotic, whose innermost and hidden thoughts are favorable to the Kaiser will not be able to escape condemnation because they have not 6penly committed the deed of disloyalty or treason. A thief gives himself away and murder will out. So also does a disloyal person and so does disloyalty. If our bodies are merely the temples of our souis, we need not cheat ourselves into the conviction that the disloyal sentiments of our souls will not be reflected in our words and actions. Or again, if "No servant can serve two masters: for he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other," how, pray tell, can a person outwardly serve one country and inwardly love another, and despite the inconsistency believe "himself a loyal patriot ? The contradiction recalls a judgment of the writer of Revelations : "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot:. I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art luke-warm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."-

Why Livestock Is Scarce The present shortage of meat animals offers the livestock man the greatest opportunity that has been held out to him for many years. He has a double opportunity for patriotic service and for advancing his business. How the shortage which opened this opportunity came about is given in a lecture delivered by F. B. Mumford, dean of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, in a recent meeting of Missouri pork producers. "During the three yeaers of war, the belligerent nations have found it necessary to reduce

their livestock in order to sustain their armies

and their civilian population," said Dean Mum-

ford. "They have made this reduction to get meat and fat enough for their people. They had

a further reason in that they needed the land which was maintaining these animals for bread grain production. They have not had land enough

and labor enough to produce food grains for their livestock. As a result the reduction in the number of livestock in European countries has reach

ed almost staggering proportions. The cattle population has been reduced by 28,000,000 head in the allied countries and in Germany and Austria. The number of sheep has been reduced 54,000,000 head. There has been a total net decrease in livestock for the world of 115,560,000 head. "The belligerent nations must have meat and fat. Their own supply is so depleted that they must depend upon the supplies of exporting countries. Presumably the condition which brought about the decrease in livestock during the three years of war that have passed will become more acute and the number of livestock will be decreased perhaps more rapidly as the war continues. Two facts are apparent from these statistics : The first is that no matter how long the war lasts the demand for livestock products will be greater and greater and greater. The second is that even though peace should come immediately the demand for livestock will not be changed because the supplies of all nations are depleted, and they will have just as many people to feed in peace as in war. It is possible that these same

people will need more meat and fat after the war than they are now eating under enforced conservation. War or no war, therefore, there will be a world-wide demand for meat production."

WHAT KULTUR IS

By Arthur Train. A Germany victory or an inconclusive peace would mean the ultimate realization of the German idea that Germany for the good of the world must rude the world. This has been taught in her universities as philosophy and in her pupilts as religion. The German nation Unquestioningly accepts it and intends to force the rest of the world to accept it. This they call "Kulture" which they claim is "above morality, reason, and science."1 Kulture teaches that there is only one sort of right that of the stronger.2 It argues with specious profundity that in the relations of nations with one another there can be no such thing as truth or honor. Frederick the Great taught that the Germans must make it their "study to deceive others in order to get the better of them."3 Frederick William IV, seventy years ago, said that all written constitutions were only "scraps of paper,"4 and Beth-mann-Hollweg in 1914, referred to the Hague Convention in the identical words. The "scrap of papeP' idea is an old one in German diplomacy. The Germans believe themselves to be a nation of supermen and the Kaiser the war-partner not of the God of Humanity but the "guter alter Gott" of the Pagan North the War God who revels in the shrieks of women and the torture of children, in bloodshed and cruelty. "I am his sword, his agent !". declares William Hohenzollern. "Let all the enemies of the German people perish ! God demands their destruction, God, who by my mouth, bids you do his will !"5 To accomplish this "divine" will the German military authorities believe that any means are justifiable, the mowing down of crowds of helpless civilians with machine guns, the cutting off of the breasts of women, the battering in of the skulls of the wounded with rifle butts. "Be as terrible as Attilla's Huns! ordered the

Kaiser."6 , "It is better to let a hundred women belonging to the enemy die of hunger than to let a single German soldier suffer."7 "All prisoners are to be put to death" ordered General Stenger, in

Belgium.8 Writes & Bavarian private ; "During the battle of Bu-

donwiller I did away with four women and seven young girls m five minutes. The captain had told me to shoot these French sows, but I preferred to run by bayonet through them."9 This is the concrete result of what the Germans call "The Re

ligion of Valor" and "The Gospel of Hate." Says one of their

spokesmen: "Must Kulture build its cathedrals on hills of corpses, seas of tears and the death rattle of the vanquished? Yes, it must."10 If Germany wins the war the United States will either be paying tribute to the Kaiser or German soldiers will be bayonetting American girls and women in Jersey City rather than take the trouble to shoot them. If Germany wins, all our ideals of truth, justice and humanity which we call Christian will be trodden down into bloddy mire under the iron heel of the Kaiser's armies, and the coming generation will be taught that there is no God but the merciless God of Battle who speaks through Germany's treacherous tongue and by her brutal sword. 1 Mann in the "Neue Rundschau" November. 1914. 2 "Das Kulturldeal under der Krelg" PP- 11-13, Sl-32, 61, 105, 130. 3 Works of Frederick II Berlin Ed. 1848. 4 Speech from the throne, April 11, 1847., 3 Proclamation of the Army of the East, 1914. 6 The Kaiser's speech to the Chinese Expeditionary force, July 27, 1900. 7 Oeneral von der Goltz, "Ten Iron Commandments of the German soldiers'' 5 Orders of the Day, Aug. 26, 1914. 9 Johann Wenger, Peronne, March 16f 1915. 1 10 Walter Bloem in the "Kolnisch Zeitung," Feb. 10, 1315.

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A LITTLE SLICE O' LIFE A friend of ours, who Is a good guy And who Is a great entertainer. When he has the price and When eatables are not so high, Invited us to dinner the other evening And, as a special treat, he had what he called Vv'oofuB fish, from the Arctic sea. They were caught In the vicinity of Archangel. And shipped directly to my friend. He told as the woofus fish was a great delicacy. They were a small fish, about The size of blind robins, and They really tasted very good. We spent the evening in the parlor, Playing the victrola and Talking about our neighbors. When suddenly I noticed that their Goldfish globe was empty, Nothing in it but the stones and The seaweed and the little castle. I never said a word, but I bad my suspicions about The Siberian woofus fish. Hard times never really come until

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DINNER 5TORIEJ The head of a certain manufacturing firm is an old gentleman who built up his business from nothing by dogged and persistent toil and who never felt that he could spare the time for a holiday. Not long ago, however, he decided that he was getting along in years and that he was entitled to a rest; so, calling his son into the library, he said: "Tom, I've worked hard for a long time and have done well, so I've decided to retire and turn the business over to you. What do you say?" The young man hesitated a moment, then said, in sudden thought:

I was Just thinking, father," he suggested, "how would it be for you to work a few years more and then we could both retire together."

some little tin-horn politicians begin Jumping on "Big Business." Where would we be without "Big Business?" We would be about as important as Gaum. The war has brought grandma's worsted wristlets back iDto fashion ae well as committing many other horrors which need not be mentioned.

Don't know but what Russia has acted worse since it had its vodka cut out than it did before. SCIENTIFICALS. Sam Bernard, the actor, expounds as follows on eugenics and other scientificals: "We didn't make love like cjher folks do. Professors, they wouldn't permit It. And It was terrific and most scientific. I'll tell you all Ju6t how we did it. With rubber gloves she held my hand ; She kissed me through a strainer. I couldn't touch her lips not much. For fear microbes would stain her We finally got married, not Because I like her face. It was a scientific match, Just to improve the race. While we stood beside the altar, On a fumigated spot, An antiseptic minister Tied the disinfected knot." A New York minister said: "In fifty years Roosevelt will be hailed with Washington and Lincoln, as the embodiment of moral quality In American life." Why wait? Let's hall now while the hailing will do the Colonel some good

Reprehensible Disloyalty Theologians divide the manner in which one may sin as to thought, word and deed. They say a desire to kill a man, or to injure him in body, is just as reprehensible before God as is the deed itself, for the principle of murder sways the heart and is the motive for the killing that may be its result. Disloyalty also may be commited as t to thought, word and deed. Some smug hypocrites delude themselves into believing that because they commit no overt disloyal act, or speak no disloyal utterance, the false

Save for Liberty Bonds From The Saturday Evening Post ONLY a lunatic can question the magnitude of the country's task. Unless peace develops sooner than

any definite signs now warrant one in expecting, the task will probably tax the country's resources more heavily than the Civil War taxed them in the North. The country's resources, ponderable and Imponderable, are sufficient to meet it. The one kind is as important as the other. The question is how to handle them most effectively. Disintegrating the country's business organization will not help. Cut-and-slash false economies that start up. broadcast material and mental reactions are not useful.

Broad measB of pushing down on less instantly es

sential production and pushing up on most instantly es

sentlal production are already In the hands of the govern

ment. There can be still further moblization of credit, through a government agency say the Federal Reserve Board to pass upon applications for capital which involve flotation of stocks and bonds. There can undobutcdly be a better mobilization of labor power, as indicated above, A vast deal must rest with the individual. He must look over his income and outgo, and save to the utmost of his ability for Liberty Bonds. If individuals don't do that they will certainly experience a price inflation which will force them to economize because their money will buy leas. It is impossible to lay down rigid, universal rules about saving. But I believe almost any individual intelligent enough to earn an income can sit in judgment on his own case and Bolve It Intelligently. There must be economy. We must eut down. If we don't do It Intelligently Inexorable forces will compel it and in a very costly way, as I expect to show in another article. But any idea of meeting this situation- by applying a wholesale, purely arbitrary classification of essential

ana nonessential to the business of the Lnited States is nonsense. !

By CAPT. J. B. WILLOUGHBY, Stationary Hospital No. 5, Queens The Turks have always had a pretty bad name but they are good clean fighters compared with the Huns. This was the opinion of all our men during my eight months' service in Egypt. They used their own methods, to be sure, but there were none of the atrocities which have bade the

Germans notorious. Had not the Egyptians in and around Cairo been so thoroughly loyal it would have gone much harder with us. Their attitude was a tribute to English statesmanship and good management, and in the hour of need they treated with the utmost consideration and respect the English and everything English. Prussianism couldn't be expected to appreciate such conditions on the part of colonists, and Cairo was the stamping ground for German propaganda. I once heard that the Turks were having an awful lot of funerals. It was considered wise

to Investigate and it was found that

the coffins contained rifles and am

munition for the Egyptians. But there

was little or no trouble with the na

tives.

We were making history in full view

of the pyramids, and on the site of Napoleon's first repulse. There was the old fort of the citadel, and the main barracks just outside the city of

Cairo In Abassia, with the creet of Napoleon over the main entrance of this immense building. All the fighting conditions were very different here from that described on the Belgian and French fronts. The Germans made great preparations for that last attack on the Suez Canal. Caravans had transported their supplies and water, but they were badly handicapped by the trip across the desert. The sand is like so much powder and the horses sink into It up to their knees. The Australian light horse came in behind the mountains and made a flank attack, and the rest of our forces met the enemy on the front, routed them and followed them until they could go no further for lack of water. This was the last big bat

tle of any account. Since then there have been only a few skirmishes and raids. Part of the time I was at Cairo, Port Said, and at Luxor, at a convalescence home on the Nile about S00 miles north of Cairo. And there the casualties came in British, Australians and New Zealander6, and among them I was particularly interested in the Maoris, an Australian troop; short, dark chaps, very pleasant and intelligent.

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Richmond, Ind., Jan. 30 1918. Editor Palladium and also Superintendent Giles: I would just like to ask if the schools that are dismissed for ten Mondays will have to make up that time in the Spring, and as there was no order for them to be closed and as a good number of High school pupils come from country homes, do you think it is fair to the parents to keep them in school so long in the summer when they are needed at home? An Interested Parent.

Insberg, tailor by trade, had just taken out an Insurance policy. Three hours later, by a curious coincidence, a fire broke out which consumed his shop and its contents. ' The insurance company could find no ground on which to refuse payment, but the letter which accompanied their check concluded as follows: "We note that your policy was issued at 9 on Friday and that the fire did not take place till 3 o'clock the

same day. Why this delay?" Maude Valerie White, in her gossipy memoirs, records some round-the-log-fire stories, one of which is characteristically western. One fearfully hot day a woman, overcome with fatigue, staggered into a small store in a city "out west." The shopman was half asleep behind the counter. She asked faintly for some powder, whereupon the man said drowsily: "Face, gun or insect?"

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